If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
GIORDANO BRUNOI pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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All things are in all.
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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